Lot 359
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Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan
  • Elevator Grill from the Chicago Stock Exchange, 30 North LaSalle Stree, Chicago, Illinois
  • wrought and cast iron

Provenance

Chicago Stock Exchange, circa 1893
Acquired from the above by the present owner at the time of the building demolition, 1972

Literature

David Lowe, Lost Chicago, Boston, 1975, p. 140
John Vinci, The Art Institute of Chicago:  The Stock Exchange Trading Room, Chicago, 1977, pp. 22-23 
Brian A. Spencer, ed., The Prairie School Tradition:  The Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Center, New York, 1979, p. 32
Louis H. Sullivan: Architectural Ornament Collection, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, exh. cat., Edwardsville, IL, 1981, fig. 37
Sarah C. Mollman, ed., Louis Sullivan in the Art Institute of Chicago:  The Illustrated Catalogue of Collections, New York, 1989, cat. no. 163
Pauline A. Saliga and Robert Bruegmann, Fragments of Chicago's Past:  The Collection of Architectural Fragments at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1990, p. 139.
Donald C. Peirce, Art & Enterprise:  American Decorative Art, 1825-1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Atlanta, 1999, p. 376
David Van Zanten, Sullivan's City:  The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, New York, 2000, p. 61
John Szarkowski, The Idea of Louis Sullivan, Boston, 2000, p. 95